Ramona Federal Savings Loan Association

The attorney for a county resident recently convicted of looting a Santa Ana thrift said Friday that the stiff prison sentence sought by federal prosecutors would, in effect, be "a death warrant" for his client, who is a quadriplegic in poor health. In a sentencing memorandum filed in Los Angeles, attorney Michael E. White appealed to U.S. District Judge David V. Kenyon to place Donald P. Mangano Sr., 53, on probation. The government has sought a 30-year prison sentence.

The attorney for a county resident recently convicted of looting a Santa Ana thrift said Friday that the stiff prison sentence sought by federal prosecutors would, in effect, be "a death warrant" for his client, who is a quadriplegic in poor health. In a sentencing memorandum filed in Los Angeles, attorney Michael E. White appealed to U.S. District Judge David V. Kenyon to place Donald P. Mangano Sr., 53, on probation. The government has sought a 30-year prison sentence.

Federal regulators late Friday closed two problem-plagued savings and loans in California and transferred their deposits to healthy institutions. Closed were Mt. Whitney Savings & Loan Assn., located in the town of Exeter in the Central Valley near Visalia, and Ramona Federal Savings & Loan Assn. in the town of Fillmore in Ventura County. Mt. Whitney will be merged into Guardian Savings & Loan Assn. of Huntington Beach. The Ramona thrift will become part of Midwest Federal Savings & Loan Assn.

Federal regulators late Friday closed two problem-plagued savings and loans in California and transferred their deposits to healthy institutions. Closed were Mt. Whitney Savings & Loan Assn., located in the town of Exeter in the Central Valley near Visalia, and Ramona Federal Savings & Loan Assn. in the town of Fillmore in Ventura County. Mt. Whitney will be merged into Guardian Savings & Loan Assn. of Huntington Beach. The Ramona thrift will become part of Midwest Federal Savings & Loan Assn.